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NASA EARTH Warm Weather Brings Major Melting to Greenland In late July 2019, a major melting event spread across the Greenland Ice Sheet. Billions of tons of meltwater streamed into the Atlantic Ocean throughout the month, making a direct and immediate contribution to sea level rise. The melting was provoked by a bubble of warm air that moved over Greenland after delivering unseasonably warm temperatures to Europe. The map above shows the short-term temperature anomaly over Greenland; it depicts how much the air temperature on July 30, 2019, was above or below the average for the previous week (July 20 to July 26). Note how the central part of the ice sheet is bathed in warm air. The map was derived from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model and represents air temperatures at 2 meters (about 6.5 feet) above the ground. The GEOS-5 model, like all weather and climate models, uses mathematical equations that represent physical processes (like precipitation and cloud ...